Hello,
I'm glad for your appreciation, I hope we get many more linux users out there to share their experience with this lcd display.

tux rules!

Matrix Orbital MX2** USB Linux Howto

this Howto Describes how to install MX2xx usb series lcd display.

Since I don't have a working Java environment I cant test the lcdtester yet. So there is no support to my knowledge for the "on-board" fan and temperature sensors.

Many many regards to wayn3 for ...

Playing with lcdnet's source code is very easy...

i knew nothing about LCDd specs, but it was easy to figure out how to get rid of the title lines, and replacing them by lines 3 & 4...


Now i would like the blue light on it to be dimmer... when i adjust the brightness, the blacklight is either ON ...

Yay!

Just switched to lcdproc 0.4.4 CVS and and don't get anymore garble, screens refresh fine.
lcdproc works good!



now i've got to install bandwidth monitoring with lcdproc. i've tried lcdnet but it only works on 4 lines ---

to be continued...

Hello, i'm running Linux kernel 2.4.22-(ac4) and i own an mx212.

The first thing that was reassuring was to see the panel light up on boot.

It took me some time to find out that the included usblcd driver in my kernel wasn't meant for the matrix orbital...
You actually have to enable generic usb ...